St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-15
THE LATEST NEWS.
Events of Importance at Home
and Abroad.

''tN iiiatIolai lllllltdfN enfalllplLehl liz
programme embraced a grand review Of the
military forces, including the foreign detach
mellfs and United States army and navy con
ungents, the firing of Il nationa! salute, a!
address OF welcome by Mayor Roche, eXhibi
t!on drills, dress parade by brigades inspec
| uon and review. About $500 soldiers Were
present. The Danish and Norwegian con
tngents are reported to be greatly dissatis
fed with the patent barrack tents assigned
them at the encampment. They are repre-
sented as claiming that the quarters are not
mp to the standard thev had expected.
close personal friend of Hon. John G
Carlisle visited Birmingham Ala, recently,
and dispatch from that city is quoted as
saying that Mr.. Carlisle counts on being
elected Speaker of the next House of Repre-
| sentatives. Mr.. Carlisle is made to say that
the complexion of the ways and means
committee would be entirely satisfactory to
majority of the Democrats that for chair
man his choice was a member of long ex-
perience and splendid ability, who would
certainly please the party at large. Mr.. Car
Isle declined to commit himself further, but
| permitted his visitor to go away under the
| declared impression that Sunset Cox will be
| the chairman of the next ways and means
committee.
Governor Moonlight, of Wyoming, in his
| annual report. estimates the present popula-
ton of the Territory at $1,000. Owing to
the fact that the railroad lands are assessed
this year for the first time, the taxable values
OF the present year exceed those of last year
by over 81 100000 For the ten months be-
glnnlngln September of last wear and ending
June ~. 1887, there were 303, ,1S5 acres of
public land taken up. The governor
says that a great evil has been fos-
tered III the Territory in the shape of
land-grabbing and illegal fencing of the
public domain by wealthy men and corpora
tlons many Of the latter aliens. but that
now the administration of the land laws is
vigorous and impartial and the settlers are
protected in their rights. The governor re-
ports that bituminous coal deposits are found
almost everywhere in the Territory. In the
six months which ended on July 1 last
over 100000 tons of coal were mined. There
is also an extensive deposit of soda, which is
converted into the marketable article in the
Territory. The Oil fields are very rich, and
large developments have been made during
the last few years.
The Springfield Rolling Mill, in Spring
field, Ill, has been shut down on account of
the strike of the coal miners in that district.
About LOCO men are thrown out of work
Commissioner Sparks has recommended
to Secretary Lamar the restoration to the
public domain of about 500, 900 acres of land
in Minnesota, within the second indemnity
limits of the Northern Pacific railroad.
A dispatch from Wabash. Ind, saws the
hog cholera is rapidly spreading in that vicin-
ity. In one neighborhood five miles north
OF that city 400 hogs have died in the last
three weeks. Every effort possible has been
made to check the scourge, but to no effect.
The healthiest animals appear most liable to
attack.
The steamship Oceanic has arrived at San
Francisco from China She brought Hong
Kong advices to September g. An arrange
ment is reported to have been made between
the Chinese government and the Great
Northern Telegraph Company, working in
conjunction with the Eastern Extension
Company, for an extension of the Imperial
China Telegraphs to Kalgan and Kiachta.
which will give direct telegraphic route
from China to the continent of Europe
and Great Britain. 1t is said the
Great Northern Company is to pay the
Chinese government one hundred thou
sand taels on condition that the Chinese
pay the same rate per word as the two COM
panies, namely, So. The arrangement is to
continue in force sixteen years. Considera-
BILE indignation has been expressed at this
attempt to obtain monopoly, and later re-
ports from China respecting the China-Amer-
ican Bank and telegraphic syndicate for
which Count Mitkiewicz negotiated conces-
sions are very conflicting. 1t is stated that
Yen, president of the board of revenue, has
strongly petitioned the Empress not to grant
the proposed concessions. and the China
Merchants Company has repudiated all con-
nection with the syndicate. The English
interests in China have been endeavoring to
prevent the final consummation of the grant !
to America
Seventeen candidates have presented them
selves to the civil service examiners in New |
York as applicants for the 5000 Office of |
IhASA VI VIC buACdA Va CASCo1oAiSi AClu oO |
many years by John J. O'Brien, the Repub- /
ican leader.
District Assembly No. Al, Knights of
Labor, which has jurisdiction throughout
;he State of Maryland, met in Baltimore and
adopted resolutions denouncing Senator E.
3. Jackson, the Democratic candidate for
governor, and declaring their intention to
10 everything possible to prevent his cleo
ion. He has been charged by District As
embly No. 66, of Washington, with being
IN enemy of organized labor.
captain Samuel Munson, q. s. A., has
lied at his mothers home in Pennington,
Me-, aged fifty-three years. He had been in
ervice twenty years, being transferred
o the regulars at the close of the war. At
he time of his death he was captain of the
Ninth United States Infantry.
The boiler in George P. Plants -four mill
n st. Louis exploded, killing four persons
nd seriously wounding two.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett will publish
newspaper in Paris, to be known as the Eu-
opedn Herald. It will be modelled after the
Jew York Herald.